Photos clockwise starting above: Spc. Samuel Cintron Jr., Bravo Troop, 102nd Cavalry Squadron, 50th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, guards an entry control point with an Iraqi soldier at Forward Operating Base Grizzly, Iraq. Photo by Sgt. Bill Addison, 50th IBCT Public Affairs. Spc. Heather DiNapoli, Bravo Company, 114th Infantry Battalion, 50th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, reads letters from home before starting a patrol outside Forward Operating Base (FOB) Cropper, Iraq. Photo by Maj. Jon Powers, 50th IBCT Public Affairs. Sgt. Ricardo Suarez, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 113th Infantry Battalion, 50th Infantry Brigade Combat Team greets a local Iraqi child during a patrol outside Safwan, Iraq. Photo by Staff Sgt. Shawn Morris, 50th IBCT Public Affairs. A Soldier from Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 113th Infantry Battalion, 50th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, patrols Safwan, Iraq. Photo by Staff Sgt. Shawn Morris, 50th IBCT Public Affairs. Sgt. 1st Class Juan Plata-Santos hoists the Stars and Stripes at the former Embassy-Baghdad. Photo by 1st Sgt. David Moore, 50IBCT/PA. First Lt. Jason Cornwell, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2-113th Infantry Battalion, gives the "High-Five" to an Iraqi boy during a January visit to Safwan, in southern Iraq. U.S. Army photo by 1st Lt. Lawrence A. Robinson.